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orms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. "All that are of noble stem." Milton. While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent. Herbert.

Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.

Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring. Darwin.

ct by arithmetical operation; to deduct. If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. Sir M. Hale.

Net having the sense of hearing; deaf. [Obs.] "A surd . . . generation." Sir T. Browne.

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

Of or pertaining to synergism. "A synergistic view of regeneration." Shedd.

A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.

successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology.

the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries. Bacon.

The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.

other; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. "The Lion of the tribe of Juda." Rev. v. 5. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak.

A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.

Froward; perverse. "Save yourselves from this untoward generation." Acts ii. 40.

A body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican.

at is always venerable. De Quincey. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

hese were enormities condemned by the most natural verdict of common humanity. South. Two generations have since confirmed the verdict which was pronounced on that night. Macaulay.